deathrey Posted January 20 Posted January 20 (edited) It's so tiring not being able to mentally relax or feel secure. My place of work have just made a third of its workforce redundant which I think will have a massive implication on the services we provide to the most vulnerable. You can't help but feel like you're about to be marched to the chopping block any second. Solidarity to you both. Edited January 20 by deathrey Quote
Paid Members Chris B Posted January 20 Paid Members Posted January 20 Absolutely nowhere feels secure at the moment - it's part of why I went into freelancing, as the last 15 years has been so stop-start. It's exhausting to deal with. That said, it's been a slow start to the month, which isn't ideal. If anyone on here knows people looking for a copywriter, content manager or video editor, please do let me know. Quote
westlondonmist Posted January 21 Posted January 21 On 1/20/2026 at 10:59 AM, SuperBacon said: Pretty much the same as local government, constant restructures and merging directorates over the last 3 years, and that's before the faff of local government reorganisation (LGR) and devolution starting. Fun innit? God, I was someone trying to find £80m worth of annual savings last year. The constant spiel of this won't necessarily mean job cuts and people buy it, if you're cutting services you'll need less people. Also if I cut the budget and get certain streets swept 3 times a week instead of 5, a council employee isn't necessarily losing their job but some people are. The only reason I think it hasn't been announced yet is because they don't want to be the ones seen as making hundreds redundant a few months before an election. Our annual government grant has been slashed by about £25m so more savings, yay!!!! Quote
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted January 21 Paid Members Posted January 21 Only a £12m budget gap we're trying to fill this year, lads, instead of £29m like last year. Quote
Browser Brady Posted January 21 Posted January 21 My wife got an email from her employer a few weeks saying they are formally notifying her that her role is at risk of redundancy. Email was sent on the day she gave birth. She’ll deal with it when she goes back to work but not nice to hear at any time. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted January 21 Members Posted January 21 Pffft, rookie numbers. 140m over this way. Quote
westlondonmist Posted January 21 Posted January 21 49 minutes ago, SuperBacon said: Pffft, rookie numbers. 140m over this way. Jesus Christ. How do you cut that much? Just do the legal minimum? Put the price of parking permits up 20%? Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted January 21 Members Posted January 21 31 minutes ago, westlondonmist said: Jesus Christ. How do you cut that much? Just do the legal minimum? Put the price of parking permits up 20%? No idea, well above my pay grade to be honest! I just get on with what I'm budgeted to do. Quote
westlondonmist Posted January 28 Posted January 28 We did our annual survey in September/October? And the results came out at the end of last year, out of about 60 questions tehy showed answers to about 12 of them, of course all of them getting positive results. More split results sent to directorates and teams, we heard nothing since. Yesterday I found out why. My Manager had seen the results and told us his manager (my head of service) had gotten a bollocking from the Director as they were so low. My department had 12 out 15 fill out the survey (actually a solid number), 1 out 12 put that there was career progression, along with lots of other low results about views on senior managers, the structure being difficult to navigate. I asked my Manager who the 1 person is, and if it was our head of service. Quote
davertfnewman Posted January 28 Posted January 28 We had an engagement survey at my previous place of work and after negative feedback, including inherent racism, the gaffer said "Well, we had a lot of good results, but some people seem to want to put some negative comments on and it's quite unprofessional - my door is always open...", which of course is an offer nobody would take up after it being addressed like that. Quote
Paid Members johnnyboy Posted January 28 Paid Members Posted January 28 Can't beat the "anonymous" employee survery. Quote
DazzM Posted January 29 Posted January 29 21 hours ago, johnnyboy said: Can't beat the "anonymous" employee survery. I work for the Ambulance Service, and our yearly surveys come out which include the questions "Where do you work", "What age range", "Full or Part time", etc to such a point that should they look at all the variables, they could easily work out who the anonymous responder was. Hence, many just don't bother. Quote
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted January 29 Paid Members Posted January 29 (edited) Our one this year had a, 'Have you been harassed at work in the past 12 months?' question. Edited January 29 by Gus Mears Quote
deathrey Posted January 29 Posted January 29 (edited) Ours has an ethnicity and gender question on it, as well as what team you work in. I work in a very female dominated field so the sole male in my team is easily identified as am I as the sole person of colour Edited January 29 by deathrey Quote
Briefcase Posted January 30 Posted January 30 In my previous job there would always be a question along the lines of 'Your Line Manager' so was pretty easy to work out my responses as from my location, only I could answer those questions as I was the only one with that line manager. Quote
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